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title: "That is a matter of taste," said King Ulysses, "and, for my own par… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "That is a matter of taste," said King Ulysses, "and, for my own part, neither the most careful fattening nor the daintiest of cookery would reconcile me to being dished at last. Who acts: That, Ulysses, own part. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 59

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"That is a matter of taste," said King Ulysses, "and, for my own part, neither the most careful fattening nor the daintiest of cookery would reconcile me to being dished at last.

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**Who acts:** That, Ulysses, own part · **What happens:** be, say, reconcile, dish · **To what, where:** matter, Ulysses, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Ulysses, own part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:15:59
# text = "That is a matter of taste," said King Ulysses, "and, for my own part, neither the most careful fattening nor the daintiest of cookery would reconcile me to being dished at last.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc:preconj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fattening	fattening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cookery	cookery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	dished	dish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a matter |  |  |  | of taste | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ulysses  King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **reconcile** *in a quote* | would | my own part neither the careful fattening | Ulysses  King *= ulysses* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dish** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | my own part neither the careful fattening *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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